Senior Software Architect, Global Platform Lead

Sony Music Entertainment China Ltd.

Greater London

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 150,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Private medical cover
Generous pension
Life assurance
Income protection
Music industry perks
Winter break time off

Job summary

Sony Music Entertainment is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join our PDEGO engineering team in London. You will shape architecture, set engineering standards, and drive long-term technical direction across global platforms, mentoring engineers and partnering with product and business stakeholders.

The ideal candidate brings 10+ years in software engineering, strong experience with TypeScript and React, microservices, AWS, data pipelines, and a passion for building scalable, reliable systems

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Experience with TypeScript and React in production.
  • Experience designing microservices and APIs using REST.
  • Comfortable with AWS cloud technologies and observability.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical design and implementation of scalable software solutions supporting Sony Music's critical global platforms.
  • Drive architecture decisions across distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, and platform services.
  • Partner closely with Product, Operations, and stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into elegant technical solutions.
  • Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code while establishing engineering best practices across the team.
  • Mentor engineers through technical coaching, code reviews, and architectural guidance.

Skills

TypeScript
React
AWS
Microservices
REST APIs
Mentoring
Agile
Data modeling

Tools

Snowflake
MySQL
Neo4j
Kafka
OpenSearch

Job description

Sony Music Entertainment is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join our PDEGO engineering team in London. You will shape architecture, set engineering standards, and drive long-term technical direction across global platforms, mentoring engineers and partnering with product and business stakeholders.

The ideal candidate brings 10+ years in software engineering, strong experience with TypeScript and React, microservices, AWS, data pipelines, and a passion for building scalable, reliable systems

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